The Last of 2010

I’ve joined the Best of 2010 list fest that The New Yorker’s writers have been indulging in over at News Desk. Mine is on the year’s top sports-political stories; I’m sure I’ve missed many, so send suggestions and corrections. And my colleagues have come up with everything from lists of the best movies (three competing ones!), plays, dance performances, and business stories to Nick Paumgarten’s “Top Ten Two-Beer Arguments of 2010,” which I am going to go ahead and declare an instant classic.

And please send any chat questions you might have. When it comes to movies, are you more of a Brody, a Denby, or a Lane? Should we really be using “dogfood” as a verb and “doga” as a noun? (Is it even possible to say doga with a straight face?) And about those liberals—if they didn’t triumph this year who, really, did? You don’t even need two beers to argue about that.

And a final tip for a snowy day: at Back Issues, Jon Michaud has put together a slide show of New Yorker blizzard cartoons. Unlike a character in one of them, I’ve not yet become indifferent to the weather.

Amy Davidson Sorkin has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2014.

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